YEAR IN INDUSTRY
A Year in Industry is an opportunity to spend a year in employment during your studies, and is available to all undergraduate students studying within the School of Management. It will provide you with invaluable experience in the real working world and will help you develop a range of skills which will make you an attractive candidate for jobs after graduating.
There are countless benefits to completing a Year in Industry; and we’re proud that we can offer placement opportunities as part of all our undergraduate courses. Our Year
in Industry degrees are four-year degree programmes, where your third year is spent working in industry. The12 month placement is a credit-bearing (worth 120 credits), assessed part of a 4 year degree programme. This means that your performance on the assessment and completion of the placement will have an impact on your final degree classification, just as a year of taught modules would. OUR EMPLOYER LINKS INCLUDE Although securing a placement is the responsibility of the student, we work with a number of organisations who provide a range of placement opportunities. If you are unable to secure a placement by the end of the second year of your studies you will transfer onto the final year of your degree programme.
A highlight from my year in industry at Bosch UK included leading two major events, with high budgets and high responsibility. These events were both successful in generating leads and I was able to implement many of my ideas to create new ways of presenting Bosch Power Tools. I thoroughly enjoyed working with many of the people in the company. We had a great group of interns, many of whom I would consider good friends. However, it’s not just the other interns - my managers and the extended team I worked with were supportive, funny and there was a great office dynamic. I’m still in touch with several members of the team and I’m in a Fantasy football league with 2 of our key suppliers!
TOM CONNELLY Placement: Bosch UK | Position: Marketing & Events Intern
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